Eumenes is the type genus of the subfamily Eumeninae (“potter wasps”) of Vespidae. It is a large and widespread genus, with over 100 taxa (species and subspecies), mostly occurring in the temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are black or brown, and commonly marked with strikingly contrasting patterns of yellow, white, orange, or red (or combinations thereof). Like most vespids, their wings are folded longitudinally at rest. The first metasomal segment is narrow and…
Species
Data sources: a = Giordani Soika (1978), b = Carpenter et al. (2010)
Notes: + = denotes species with described subspecies
External links
Eumenes wasps of Florida on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Eumenes, EOL
Ancestry Graph
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